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New Yorkers More Likely To Die From CHD

...s real," said Dr. Wayne Rosamond, chair of the AHA statistics committee, "but it's well known that there are regional differences in the way doctors fill out death certificates." Rosamond gives hope that death from heart disease nationwide has been steadily waning at about 3% a year for decades, though much w...

Tuberculosis: The Bacillus Takes Refuge in Adipose Cells

... more prevalent in the world's population than the statistics would lead us to believe, because only 5 to 10% of those infected actually develop tuberculosis. The bacillus may be present in a significant proportion of the population, remaining in a "dormant" state in the body, sometimes for years, and may be "r...

British Hospitals Reeling Under the Effect of Alcoholic Excesses

...ain over the past few years//. Current official statistics show that emergency wards in hospitals, treated twice the number of patients treated for accidents and emergencies caused due to drunkenness since 1997. Other related medical conditions and treatment for the same also have doubled, reported NHS si...

Bowel Disorders may Cause a 'Roller Coaster' Pregnancy

... of 12 studies spanning 20 years. Delving into the statistics of 4,000 women, in the throes of Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, revealed that such women carried a double risk of having a premature or underweight baby. Though researchers were able to discern the risk, they were unable to label the exact ca...

How to Bell the Fat? –Most U.S Citizens Concerned, Reveals Surve

... Disease Control and Prevention presented alarming statistics that about 66 percent of American adults between the ages of 20-74 and 17 percent of kids between 2-19 years are overweight or obese. Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, president of The Endocrine Society, said in a prepared statement, 'Clearly, Americans recogn...

China Introduces Solar-powered Baths

...scheme for its population in the countryside where statistics //show that 200 million out of China's 800 million rural people bathe only once a month. Now energy experts have devised a bathing scheme aimed at introducing China's rural population to the joys of a hot bath. Tens of millions of Chinese populati...

Did Eli Lilly Turn Wily With Regard to Their Best-selling Schizophrenia Drug?

...of the drug Zyprexa. Even the company’s published statistics which the sales representatives have been tutored to make light of, portrays statistics that about 30% of the patients consuming Zyprexa, have gained 22 pounds within a year of consuming t...

Over 500 Sudden Unexplained Deaths Every Year, Mostly in Young Men

...) were calculated and compared with official death statistics for SADS and unknown causes of death. The resul...r 100,000 of the population was 0.16. But official statistics for unknown causes of death were 1.34 per 100,000, up to eight times higher than initially estimated...

Cases of Cancer in N.S. Are On The Rise

...cotia, released on Tuesday, which looked at cancer statistics from 2000 to 2004. Nathalie Saint-Jacques, Cancer Care Nova Scotia epidemiologist, said that the number is related to population aging and preparing a cancer support system sustainable to meet this demand would be a better option now. The report...

A Nurse’s Job Is Nerve Breakin

...d it’s certainly affecting their well-being. The statistics shows that about 10 % were injured while on duty in the previous year, stuck by needles or sometimes even physically assaulted by patients. The survey associates work stress and lack of respect to health problems among nurses. About 12 % of nurse...

Gene-Altered Foods -Still Not Sure

...ted this year by Mellmans group, a few interesting statistics have come to light. Less than a quarter of Americans are aware that they are eating gene altered foods, support for GM foods has not increased over the last 5 years, slightly more amount of people believe GM foods are safe and out of those who claim...

Gene-Altered Foods ? Still Not Sure

...ted this year by Mellmans group, a few interesting statistics have come to light. Less than a quarter of Americans are aware that they are eating gene altered foods, support for GM foods has not increased over the last 5 years, slightly more amount of people believe GM foods are safe and out of those who claim...

When Type 1 and Type 2 Are Mouthed By Babes ...

...eveloping and developed countries portray shameful statistics of children coming down with type 2 diabetes as early as eight years old. Francine Kaufman, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California medical school, said 'Diabetes has become a chronic and common disease among children .....

Mifepristone Reliable For Treating Uterine Fibroids

... 'blind' to the data and outcomes. Here are some statistics cited by the study authors: Although quality of life measurements were the same for both groups at the start of the study, the women on mifepristone reported a 135-percent improvement in quality of life after six months, compared to a 41-percent impr...

India's Law on Homosexuality Needs Recourse - Hampers HIV Prevention

...mmit sexual abuse against children. According to statistics enabled by the India's National AIDS Control Organization, there are nearly 2.5 million MSM (men having sex with men) in the country. 'People are being harassed by section 377 and men having sex with men do not come forward and receive adequate preve...

'Prevention, Cultural Changes Must Lead AIDS Battle'

... epidemic now afflicts 39.5 million people, recent statistics showed. Anti-retroviral drugs have allowed many AIDS patients to live longer and fuller lives than ever before, yet for every patient treated with antiretroviral annually, almost three more are contracting the disease. "Do the math - we are losing...

Smokers Cost Chinese Economy Billions

...ercent of GDP, the report said. According to the statistics of the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are currently 350 million smokers in China and 700,000 people die from smoking every year.Experts suggest cigarettes should be more heavily taxed making the habit more expensive encouraging people to quit...

A Snapshot of the Findings of the National Family Health Survey in India

...hor, senior gender specialist, ORC Macro. Detailed statistics on HIV , gathered during the survey ,can be used to evaluate the manner with which the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) tackles the disease in the future. SA...

Obstacles to Reducing Human Injury and Death Due to Medical Error

...and the absence of objective, hospital-by-hospital statistics on outcomes of medical treatment -- not to mention the relative infrequency of civil malpractice litigation -- enhances the social importance of criminal law as a way of increasing transparency in the medical world,' Leflar said. Few Japanese offi...

Mentally-Ill Patients Get Re-Hospitalized More

...ollowing observations were made after studying the statistics relating to hospitalization and patient readmission rates during the year 2003-2004. Among those mentally ill patients readmitted, 45 percent of patients were those with a personality disorder and 41 per cent of people with schizophrenia and one in...

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